As discussed in this space and in the forums yesterday, in order to really be
able to test this new format it was time to just take the plunge at put it up
live. Feel free to offer feedback about the design in general, ways you feel it
could be tweaked, and as important as anything, please let me know if there are
any problems, as there are surely some browser/OS combos that it has not been
tested on. Depending on how all this goes, I may or may not be switching back
and forth between the old and new formats as we work through all this.

Retro colors is being debugged but I'm told it should do doable. I have a reasonable degree of confidence there.

Popular threads will definitely return, I just want a menu graphic for it before it goes on the menu (Monday). I tried it with a temporary text header and it didn't seem passable enough even as a short-term fix.

The format of the forums and other pages won't change before then... will those thread listings suffice for now?